Analyzed the content of 91 newspapers in terms of four expected effects of newspaper competition: quality, diversity, fairness, and responsiveness. Found few beneficial effects of competition. (PD)

Assesses the news consensus on specific stories that appeared on the front three pages of a random sample of American daily newspapers for a composite publication week. Reports that there is little consensus among editors as to what constitutes the day's important news. (FL)

Reports that sports editors believe that sportswriting is getting better and that less "cheerleading" is occurring on their pages now than in the past. (FL)

Reports that across the sites studied and across the different types of news items newspapers varied markedly in their coverage of Mexican-Americans. (FL)

Analyzes story use by both large and small papers published in Ohio in the nineteenth century and concludes that the smaller papers accepted the news definition of the larger ones, which was derived from wire service reports. (FL)

Reports that coverage of preelection polls by the Israeli press has increased markedly since 1948, as has media sponsorship of them. (FL)

Reports that coverage of civil rights issues increased in "Ebony" after the passage of the 1964 civil rights law. Notes that photoeditorials were the main means of advocacy. (FL)

Notes that Canadian journalists accepted censorship during World War I with a minimum of complaint, viewing it as a necessary sacrifice for the war effort. (FL)

Provides an analysis of Supreme Court votes on 47 press-related cases showing that they form a scalable universe that is unidimensional. Suggests that that dimension is political predisposition. (FL)

Content analysis of three newspaper advice columns (Ann Landers, Abigail Van Buren, Joyce Brothers) shows that they refute myths about mental health and marriage more often than they support them. (FL)

Analyzed letters published in China's official newspaper during 1967-68 and 1976-78. Demonstrates that the "letters to the editor" column is a chief institutionalized mechanism for the pursuit and resolution of conflict. (PD)

An analysis of 37 cumulative news stories that appeared in "The New York Times" from 1925 to 1975 suggested that the informational linkages between segments of cumulative news stories were extremely weak and that none of the characteristics of cumulative news story construction changed significantly over the sample period. (GT)

Analyzes the extent of coverage, total year's publishing output, time lag between publication and review date, length of review, amount of actual criticism, reviewers, and policies of 30 publication reviews chosen from the 1972-74 lists of Notable Children's Books. (Author/CMV)

An analysis of the editorials in ten leading newspapers during the 1976 presidential election shows that considerably more space was devoted to economic issues than to any other specific issue. (GT)

An analysis of the use by 23 newspapers of material from the three major commercial television network interview programs--"Issues and Answers" (ABC), "Face the Nation" (CBS), and "Meet the Press" (NBC)--suggests that newspapers associated with television stations do not give preference to materials from their own…